Personally, I have used the original Mozilla build of firefox and thunderbird since I installed aptosid. http://ubuntuzilla.sourceforge.net used to provide the latest version in a debian repo (yes, yes I know, ubuntu is not compatible... However, these packages install completely in /opt and are therefore easy to remove). Since Ubuntuzilla ceased operations (The last two posts indicate otherwise, but there is no definitive future yet), I downloaded the python script responsible for downloading and packaging the mozilla release from the developer's git. I modified it to remove its dependency on sudo (it uses fakeroot now) and also to make the user be able to select a default locale which is going to be downloaded (it always downloaded en-US before) and also additional language packs which will be downloaded and installed before packaging. Also, additional maintainer scripts now declare the configuration files and register firefox as an alternative for x-www-browser. If there is interest, I could post the modified version here.

DeepDayze

Post subject:Posted: 25.03.2011, 16:57

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Ilinsekt wrote:

Personally, I have used the original Mozilla build of firefox and thunderbird since I installed aptosid. http://ubuntuzilla.sourceforge.net used to provide the latest version in a debian repo (yes, yes I know, ubuntu is not compatible... However, these packages install completely in /opt and are therefore easy to remove). Since Ubuntuzilla ceased operations (The last two posts indicate otherwise, but there is no definitive future yet), I downloaded the python script responsible for downloading and packaging the mozilla release from the developer's git. I modified it to remove its dependency on sudo (it uses fakeroot now) and also to make the user be able to select a default locale which is going to be downloaded (it always downloaded en-US before) and also additional language packs which will be downloaded and installed before packaging. Also, additional maintainer scripts now declare the configuration files and register firefox as an alternative for x-www-browser. If there is interest, I could post the modified version here.

There's nothing to prevent you from using Ubuntu packages with aptosid but be warned that using them can put your system into an unsupportable state should you run into issues and the aptosid team will not support your system in that case.

muchan

Post subject:Posted: 25.03.2011, 19:43

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now experimental has iceweasel 4.0-2.
I don't see any valid reason to download from mozilla directly, any more.

arwa

Post subject:Posted: 26.03.2011, 08:45

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If the buttons are missing, did you try to quit firefox, delete the temporary GUI caching files XPC.mfasl and XUL.mfasl in your profile directory and restart the browser? In my case the files are in ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.sty/. But I did not try the upgrade yet.